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Recap / Dead Pixels S 1 E 3 Betrothal

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Meg and Nicky get married in Kingdom Scrolls and, much to Alison's annoyance, start acting Like an Old Married Couple.


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  • Brick Joke: Alison invites Meg's mum to play the game and see their in-game wedding in Kingdom Scrolls. Embarrassed, Meg sends her to the underworld via a hex, which Alison is not exactly happy about. The last shot of the show is Meg's mum still in the underworld running away from a beast. Even Usman finds her fate a bit cruel.
  • Blatant Lies: Nicky and Megs' marriage in-game has the knock-on effect of making them act like jerks in real life, much to the increasing ire of Alison. They deny anything is wrong throughout.
  • Citizenship Marriage: Meg likens them and Nicky getting married as this (married not for love, but for other purposes).
  • Cringe Comedy: The final minutes of the show has Nicky and Meg "prove" to Alison that their marriage means nothing by having sex in Kingdom Scrolls (Read: dry humping each other by abusing emotes). Alison even walks away, but it continues on, partly because Meg appears to get mildly into it.
  • Like an Old Married Couple: Nicky and Meg start acting like this in real life, at first unintentionally, but they get real mean to one other, and failing to keep up the ruse that nothing is wrong.
  • Meta Guy: Nicky mentions several times the "character arc" of the type of people Meg and Nicky are (in that two people in flatmates eventually marry each other), and makes it his mission to subvert this storytelling trope.
  • Objectshifting: Not unlike Prop Hunt, whenever Russell comes online, Usman, Meg, and Nicky hide by enchanting themselves and turn into furniture. This later extends to anyone they've ever met, who do the same thing to avoid Russell.
  • Running Gag: Russell coming online and everyone turning into chairs. This starts with everyone on the chat, and several scenes later, a good 100 people who have attended Meg and Nicky's wedding are just furniture, solely to avoid Russell, who, as the show proves many times, is a Noob who dies in stupid, often easily avoidable, ways.

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